420 Songs: LA & SoCal Jams To Get 'High' To (VIDEOS)

According to Kendrick Lamar, people come to Los Angeles for the city's "women, weed and weather."

The Compton rapper follows a legacy of LA musicians singing about pot. From Snoop Dog to The Doors to Sublime, it's clear that the SoCal music scene is all about hitting the "high" notes.

In honor of 4/20 ("Weed Day") this year, we've compiled a playlist of our favorite SoCal stoned songs. A few of the tunes not on Spotify we added in videos above and below. What's your favorite song to get "high" (on life, of course) to?

Louis Armstrong, the jazz marvel, gained fame initially as a horn player and later as a vocalist, a musical ambassador, and a character of epic proportions. Known as "Satchmo" and "Pops" to millions of fans, the trumpet maestro swore by "gage," one of the preferred nicknames for cannabis in jazz circles. Satchmo, a notorious pot smoker, often touted the benefits of the herb. "We always looked at pot as a sort of medicine," he stated. Armstrong, the grandchild of a slave, said he used reefer to unwind, to relieve stress, to ease the chronic pain of racism: "It makes you feel good, man. It relaxes you, makes you forget all the bad things that happen to a Negro."